[xf86-input-synaptics v3 00/14] Move X touch handling to synaptics.c

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Fri Feb 10 13:54:00 PST 2012


On 02/10/2012 10:52 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> I do wonder if it's worth adding an option that disables all driver gestures
> that would otherwise interfere with MT. took me a bit to find and disable
> all settings to get touch events.

That sounds like a bad idea to me. Options should be independent of each
other unless it is impossible not to be. Imagine the users who
accidentally say "I want all touch events", then enable two touch
scrolling, then wonder why they don't get scroll events. Seems like a
support nightmare.

-- Chase


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